Nice apologia, for the incompetent crew, incompetent at best. You say Vlad’s a bad boy, what can poor Barry possibly do. Waaaa, Waaaa…. Personally, I think Obummer and his people are worse than incompetent, I doubt they regret dissipating US power – I think that’s the point of the exercise. But I digress.

Nice attempt at apologia, because the Obama crew gave the game away by denying this was an invasion of Ukraine sovereign territory, with the unopposed entry nonsense. Face it Ignatius, they really are this incompetent, or this hostile to US interests. No apologia will change that.

Does anyone but me think this is another nail in the coffin of Obama and Clinton and any other wimpy, noodle spined Liberal for the office of CinC?

He has lost all international credibitily and put us in severe danger to all those elements of death that cherish the thought of coming at us. Its one thing to interfere militarily but its another to have such a world view that everyone knows that even if you could you wouldn't.

Good weekend for us domestic types (domestic because my 28 years in the Marines are 18 years in the past): Grandson swam a 21.41 in his 50 free as well as a 4:35 in the 500 free, while a grandaughter took first in the all-around at her regional gymnastics meet.

But while I am enjoying being a grandfather, I am very concerned over what Barry and his fellow America haters are doing to the country--both domestically and internationally. Will we recover? Sure we will, even if things go to a Tom Kratman or John Ringo outcome. But I hate to think of how many times in the past and how many times in the future this country will be saved by our Armed Forces stepping in to clean up the mess the politicians leave us.

JiB-- I've ended our 3 year sabatical from our little golf club, so I will take up the game again this spring. I'm not any good, golf is a 'good walk spoilt' for me, but I do enjoy twilight 9 hole rounds in 100 minutes.

"From the Associated Press: "The Hall of Famer in a Red Sox warmup jersey met the Orioles rookie wearing No. 85 behind the cage during batting practice. They hugged, sharing an embrace and something else — one of the most recognizable names in baseball history. A couple hours later, Carl Yastrzemski sat in the stands for another special moment Sunday. His grandson, Mike, played his first major league spring training game and scored a run for Baltimore in an 8-6 loss to Boston."

As some long timers here know, Yaz and I are childhood friends and his dad and mine played semi-pro ball together on the East End of Long Island. Mike is a comer. Its all genetic.

I wish I was as confident as you, but we live in the age of EMPs and nuclear or soon to be nuclear Armageddon seeking terror states and, for the first time, an anti American president apparently willing to sacrifice our country on the cross of his nutty left wing ideology.

Interesting that one of those fashion fools who wore the white dinner jacket to the Oscars, Matthew McConaughey, praised God rather profusely when he won to the embarrassed and largely stunned silence of his fellow "artists".

Rumsfeld on Greta by phone. Says that this is a result of Obama sending a message that we are in decline and are withdrawing from the world arena. He says that when that happens, the vacuum will be filled by those who do not share our values or interests. Says Obama lacks a foreign policy and that is the cause of the instability in the world.

Then Bolton was on from the UK. Big news over there is that a paper got a photo of a document being carried into a meeting with Cameron. It said that the UK will not support NATO action in Ukraine nor will it support economic sanctions. Says this is what happens when you have 5 years of not thinking about American interests.

CH Yaz was on pennant winners in '67 (when Yaz Bread and the Carl Yazstrzemski song came out, and I became a 7-year old Sox fan) and '76, and popped out to end that goddam playoff in '78. It was the Series that were problematic for the Sox (until recently, of course).

In phrasing its question posed in early February to 1600 respondents across the country, the state-funded sociologists at WCIOM were clearly trying to get as much support for the intervention as possible

You get the feeling from reading the Time article that Russia will be doomed without the EU. When in fact Russia has been expanding to China, Korea and Japan and building pipelines to supply them directly.

Meanwhile Time is confounded by Matthew McConaughey's acceptance speech, that I linked above, thanking God and his family.
They do however find Jared Leto's (whoever he might be) amazing because he didn't thank God but did supplicate himself before the modern day Moloch of buggery.

Jane,
I have no idea nor a care what Leto does with his gentleman's equipment nor have I heard of him before.

I was only noting in this day and age to thank God is equivalent to using Monty Python's Confuse a Cat service on our elites, whereas thanking everyone but Him is to be instantly accepted as one of the body, to use one of narc's Star Trek references.

Those last two games of the '67 regular season against the Twins were the two most compelling baseball games I ever saw, JiB. More compelling than any of the four wins against the '04 Yankees, and more compelling than any World Series game in '04, '07 or '13. That '67 season was unbelievable. If you were in a car, you'd be asked the score by pedestrians crossing the street at the light. It was assumed you'd have the Bosox game on.

Jimmyk, shortstop Rico Petrocelli of the Bosox caught the ball that clinched a tie for best regular season record for the Bosox. So your memory is not playing tricks as to who caught the last out for the Bosox in Gentleman Jim's 5-3 complete game victory over Minnesota in game 162. But the pennant wasn't clinched until Mincher made the putout for the last out in the Angels' win over the Tigers.

iirc they didn't announce the discovery for a year or so (the appraisers announced because they were advertising for an auction and the bbc article I read claimed the appraisers informed the sheriff's department of the find-sidebar: would the people have a claim that the appraisers failed in their responsibilities if in fact the government comes and seizes the coins. also if there was a reward for the 1899 heist would the couple now be able to claim it).

when I read about it the first thing I thought of was it was loot from some old wagon train robbery.

Typhuspad ate the formatting. The three columns are (W)hite, (M)ale, (F)emale. The way I read the data is that white females of lower income and less education are fleeing the Progressive Fascists at a substantially greater pace than white males. My SWAG is that it is entirely due to that group actually believing the Progressive Fascist lie that 404Care would be affordable.

I would like to point out that Russia is perfectly aware, as is the Muslim world judging from their being the site of so many global ed summits now, of the true nature of the ed reforms the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Hong Kong among others are all taking on.

I am pretty deep at the moment in books by authors who emigrated from the USSR with their ideology intact. I sometimes think every major state university system must have several former Moscow State pedagogy specialists and psychologists and they view their job as bringing the Marxist theories of the mind to US classrooms. And they say so.

My point being Putin and the Chinese must view us now as a ticking bomb that will cease to be dangerous in the near future unless we recognize what has been targeted. I mentioned the 87 conference on AI. It's an almost 300 page book of conference that was published in Oslo, and it reads like a blueprint on extinguishing the mental capability of the West.

I have to find it in footnotes. All these people have known from get go what was to occur.

@NK: At the end of his acceptance speech, Matthew gave one of those Texas-sized shit eating grins and said 'Alright, alright, alright!' I thought it was pretty funny and he clearly didn't give a rat's ass what the audience thought about his references to God. Impressive.

I wonder if the New Yorker has considered that Merkel miscalculated Putin, pushing the nationalistic Ukrainians to reject Russia and the Russians know it.

Economic sanctions against Russia run the risk of the Russian retaliating back, and cutting their gas supplies.

How long before the stockpiles are gone? They can't use coal since they have shut down coal usage. They won't be able to buy electricity from France as before because Hollande has reduced capacity of their own nuclear reactors.

What to do, what to do? Well, at least she has Obama and Kerry on the job.

Tony C. actually had his best offensive season in his 2nd year back after the beaning, but he would only play 1 more full year after that. He tried to make a comeback as a DH after sitting out 3 full seasons, but gave up after 20 games or so.

That would be good news, Rick,,Now if there were only a woman who understood this tranche and could play on that---oh, wait, do you suppose if we tattooed her name on his forehead, Rence would remember?

You won't see the Fnork wing doing anything but sitting on its collective thumb - the Bathhouse Billionaires just wouldn't approve. I just hope Heritage recognizes the opportunity and shifts some early ad money to tabloids and The View.

That was also the year Denny McLain had a mysterious injury that some thought was inflicted by bookies punishing for gambling debts.

I wish they'd have iced his fat ass to keep that idiot Bob Short from trading away the left side of the Senator infield for that bum. My God, I saw a picture of him on wiki looking some stuff up; he makes post retirement Gaylord Perry look thin.

DOT: I was always amazed the Yaz would smoke like a chimney in the dugout. Different times obviously but still surprising to this nine yr old kid in 1967.

Lots of players smoked in those days; Dick Allen for one.

All the talk of Tony C (the pictures of him after being beaned were like WTF level of brutal) reminds me of how Paul Blair got rocked and had to go to a hypnotist to keep from bailing out on inside pitches. My buds and I in the bleachers at Cleveland Municipal Stadium once started snapping our fingers to end the trance; he turned around to let us know he heard us. We'd probably be charged with a hate crime today instead of just being a-holes.